Monday, August 6, 2012

Bee Blocking It

In this month's bee block round-up:

I made this Crown of Thorns block in June for Tiffany in the Stash Trad bee. She asked us to create an "explosion of color" in the outer HSTs, with the color from the inner ring carrying over into the fabric used in the outer HSTs. You can find the block pattern here, and go here to see the finished quilt top that Tiffany made with these blocks! It's so beautiful and colorful!

Next up, I made two paper-pieced yellow and gray paper-pieced stars for Kati, who had July in both of my bees.

So here's my Stash Trad block for Kati, using my own fabric. The pattern is from the book 50 Fabulous Paper-Pieced Stars by Carol Doak. This is probably my all-time favorite paper-piecing book—all the stars in the book are done in very traditional fabrics, but if you can look past that, the patterns are, well, fabulous! This is the Pennsylvania star.

just beautiful! I love those grey, yellow, and white fabrics! <3 I would like to learn paper piecing. I saw a tut on it, but the directions were just a little too much to follow in my head with no experience in it at all.

Lovely blocks. I have that book by Carol Doak, and I sometimes I have trouble seeing past what is on the page. Thank you for showing me some lovely examples in modern colors. I may have to dig that book out again and give it a whirl!

I absolutely love your paper pieced blocks - both the designs and the fabrics you've used. I just have a bit of a touchy question. You know those little bits that don't quite line up?? I know that paper piecing is supposed to be the answer for accuracy, but I always find that when I go to piece the sections - I get those same freaking little bits that don't quite match up. I'm just curious about whether it annoys you, to have gone to all that effort and still end up with little annoying bits. (and I hope you don't mind the question - I promise - I didn't really notice them all that much).

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